Biography

David Kazmer received BS Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1989 and PhD from the Design Division at Stanford University in 1995. He has held engineering and management positions in industry and academia, is a named inventor on over 20 patents, and author of two books, ten book chapters, and more than three hundred other publications.
David O. Kazmer, Ph.D., is researching advanced capabilities in design of manufacturing processes, focusing on molding process simulation and development as well as product and machine design towards integrated product and process engineering. Teaching courses pertaining to process engineering, mold design, process control, and process simulation. He is also an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Mech. & Ind. Eng, Amherst Campus.
His industry experience includes engineering and management positions at GE Research and Development, GE Plastics, and Synventive Molding Solutions.

Awards and Honors

College of Engineering Service-Learning Award (2013), Service, University

Presentations

A Protocol for Filament Production and Use in Fused Deposition Modeling - Accepted to Extrusion Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers’ Annual Technical Conference, 2016 - Indianapolis, IN, May 22-25

Structural optimization of a dual-sensing module for temperature and pressure measurement in injection mold cavity - Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2008

A comparison of statistical process control and principal components analysis - Proceedings of the Society of Plastics Engineers Annual Technical Conference, 2008

Numerical Simulation of Composition Induced Phase Separation in a Polymer-polymer-solvent Ternary System on a Patterned Substrate with Nano Features - IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, August 2008 - Arlington, TX

Modeling The Effects of Complexity on Manufacturing Costs and Time-To-Market of Plastic Injection Molded Products - Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society, March 1999 - Charleston, SC

Commanding the Technical Frontier: Engineering Education for the 21st Century - 50th Anniversary Celebration of the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Engineering, 1998

On the Divergence of Case Studies and Hardware Prototypes in Active Learning - American Society of Engineering Education Northeast Regional Meeting, 1998

A Theory of Constraints for Molded Part Design and Manufacture - GE Research & Development, 1998